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Financial Times Article Rating

Christine Lagarde under fire from unions over ECB workers' rights

  • Bias Rating

    18% Somewhat Conservative

  • Reliability

    50% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    18% Somewhat Conservative

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Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Three others dedicate 70-80 per cent of their time to workers' representation, with the remaining members spending 50 per cent of their time on the body.
50% : If implemented, they would "significantly restrict the rights of employee representation and the scope for meaningful social dialogue", warned Werneke in his letter, seen by the FT, adding that workers' rights at the ECB were already subpar.
46% : "This arrangement would make it impossible to adequately represent workers' interests," said EPSU's Goudriaan in his letter sent to Lagarde in late February.
39% : Two of Europe's most powerful trade unions have accused European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde of undermining workers' rights at the Frankfurt institution, escalating a long-running and bitter feud over labour relations.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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